Remote Life

Building a trusting and engaging partnership with stakeholders can be like building any relationship. What you put into it is what you get out of it.

If your team is new to remote work, spend as much time setting up an environment based on trust as you are setting up technical tools to make it possible.

Instead of hitting pause on user research plans, now is the time to understand the benefits of remote research.

As 2018 drew to an end, the season of appreciation, gratefulness, and gifting was coming upon us.

Four months ago, when so much felt uncertain and I was getting ready to begin my first day at Ad Hoc, passages from Bird by Bird are what made the excitement swallow the anxiety in my stomach.

Sometimes, a once-in-a-generation event comes along to mess with your work day. Fortunately for Ad Hoc team members,

I check my phone for PagerDuty alerts and pull my mustache from between my lips. Vets.gov was available through the night; I won’t need to shave this morning.

Our growing UX team got together in real life in beautiful Portland, Oregon last week to talk, work, drink lots of coffee and tea, eat, and generally, spend some quality time together.

This spring, a robin decided to use my rain gutter’s downspout for her nest. I grabbed my phone, fired up a meeting room, and let everyone know that we had a live stream of the nest.